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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.22.7

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 22: Omens on Khara’s march. Blood-coloured rain, darkness and bodily tremors warn of disaster, Khara dismisses them and advances with his leading warriors

In the sequence: predators cry, darkness spreads before twilight, jackals howl, the sun is obscured, and stars appear by day

3.22.7

prabhinnagirisaṃkāśās toyaśoṣitadhāriṇaḥ
ākāśaṃ tad anākāśaṃ cakrur bhīmā balāhakāḥ

Fearsome clouds, resembling riven mountains, bearing waters now dried up, made that sky no-sky, blotting it out.

Words: prabhinnagirisaṃkāśās — resembling riven mountains; toyaśoṣitadhāriṇaḥ — bearing waters now dried up; ākāśaṃ — the sky; tad — that; anākāśaṃ — no-sky, void of sky; cakrur — made; bhīmā — fearsome; balāhakāḥ — clouds

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. Sanskrit: The Vālmīki-Rāmāyaṇa: Critical Edition, Oriental Institute, Baroda, 1960–1975 (gen. eds. G. H. Bhatt, U. P. Shah); IAST from GRETIL (Göttingen). Translation and word glosses: Claude Opus 4.6–4.7; summaries and sequences: ChatGPT Astra (machine-made). Numbering follows the Critical Edition, not the vulgate (e.g. Gita Press, valmikiramayan.net), so sarga and verse numbers can differ from those editions.